Manifold account-sheets.



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II'IIINIFOII) ACCOUNT SHEETS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.5. ISHS.

Patemmd De@ 4, 19W.

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MANIFOLD ACCOUNT-SHEETS.

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Speciication of Letters Patent.

Patented Mec. d, 191W;

`Applicationfiled December 5, 19.16. Serial No. 135,104.-

To all whom; t may concern:

Be it known that I, ULRICHY W. WALTON, a citizen of the United States7 andiresident of Paton, in the county of Greene and-State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Manifold Account-Sheets, .of which the following is a specilication..`

The object of my inventionis to provide manifold account sheets for use in banks or other business institutions, whereby` various records, for instance, the record of a depositor may be keptf by a loose leaf system in duplicate.

A further `object of my invention is to provide means for securingthe` sheets together with the carbon paper between them in such a manner that when they are placed in a typewriter or other machine having a cylindrical platen, theinner sheet and carbon paper may move upon each other and upon the outer sheet without; wrinkling or creasing.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and .combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth pointed out in' my claims, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l shows a top or plan view of my improved device, the original and duplicate sheets being secured together with the carbon sheet between them, and having parts broken away Vto better illustrate the construction.

4ig. 2 shows aninverted plan view vof the device.

Fig. 3 shows a sectional view ofthe sheets shown in Fig. 1, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows an enlarged, detail, plan view Vof one corner of the duplicate sheet, showing the arrangement of the slits` therein, and

Fig. 5 shows an enlarged, detail, plan view of one corner of the original sheet showing the arrangement of the slots and tongue thereof.

' For convenience I shall explain my invention as used forA keeping a banks recordsof its depositors accounts by a loose-leaf` system, whereby an accurate carbon copy is made which can be handed to the customer at the end' of eachfmonth, or when called for without the necessity of doing eXtra printing for the purpose of furnishing to the depositor, a statement of his account. Itwill be understood,however, that my improved devicemaybe .used in many business institutionsother than banks. I

Inthe illustration of my invention shownv in the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to` indicate lgenerally a sheet which I shall for convenience call the original sheet, used in a loose-leaf bookkeeping system and the, numeral 11 to indicate a duplicate sheet. The original sheet l0 is provided with certain rulings 12I andindicating characters 13 which may be arranged in any desired way. The rulings and indicating characters on the sheets may be the same. sheets is the lining inthe coacting, fastening members of the original and duplicate sheets.

It should also be understood in this con`` The. only difference in the y nection that what I call the original sheet may be used for the duplicate sheet, and what I call the duplicate sheet could be used for the original sheet.

The original sheet is provided near its top and bottom with tongues lil cut from the sheet` asclearly illustrated in Figo.` I prefer to use the coacting fastening device` near the four corners of thesheets. The tongues near the upper end of the sheet are cut along their side edges and at their Lipper edge so as to extend upwardly with relationl to the sheet, and the tongues near the lower edge of the sheet are cut at their side edges and theirlower edges so as to extend down-l wardly with relation to the sheet. the lower tongues is clearly shown in Fig. 5.

The corners of the tongue 14 are preferably cut at` l5 for conveniently graspingl the tongues for securing together the original and duplicate sheets.

The duplicate sheet is provided near each corner with a pair of horizontal, parallel slits 16 of sutlicient length to form a strap 19 adapted to receive the tongues 14 beneath it. The arrangement of the slots 1G is illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4.

The sheets may be arranged with similar coacting fastening devices near their side edges, arranged with the slits lengthwise of the duplicate sheet, from top to bottom thereof, and with the tongues extending laterally toward the side edges of the original sheet. The coacting fastening devices at thesides of the sheets are arranged near enough to the edges to permit the carbon paper to be One of wide enoughY to be between thefastening de- A vices at the tops and those at the bottom of the sheet, whereby the carbon Vis held against slipping out from between the sheets, and is held properly in position. This arrangement is desirable in long sheets.

" 'The duplicate sheet is placed face up, and

the carbon sheet 18, of such size as to lie.`

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I have foundin practice that the ktongues may be slightlypressedat their .free ends, and will then lie flat and parallel at their free ends with the body of the original A sheet 10, as shown in Fig. 3.

' Copies'of this patent. may he obtainedffor I will now describe the use of my device and some of the advantages thereof: Vith many statementr machines it is the custom to have a sort of trough or receptacle adjacent to the machine and when it is desired to make statements with carbon copies thereof, two sheets are taken from the recep tacie, a carbon paper is placed between them, the edges of the two sheets are carefully alined and the sheets are then placed in the machine.

The alining of the original and duplicate sheets takes considerable time and care, and it is obvious that the placing of the carbon paper between the sheets takes the time of the machine operator and considerable length of time for preparing the statements.

f' By providing the coacting tongues and slits in the two sheets in the manner herein setforth, the two sheets with a carbonsheet between them may be prepared or assembled before the time when they are to be used, and the carbon sheet is securely held in position between the sheets when they are to be used, and the carbon sheet is securely held in position between the sheets when being stored in any position, such for instance, as

' in vertical ling cabinets. When being used in a typewriter the slit and tongue arrangement provides for slight sliding movement for the lower portion of the sheets relative to each other, as required to prevent wrinlr ling or creasing one of the sheets. For instance if the upper and lower edges of the sheets were rigidly secured then in passing their.v around a typewriter platen one of the sheets would wrinkle or crease. The sheets may also readily 'and quickly bedetached at any time, and new under sheets substituted,

Ybecause the tongues are never destroyed or second sheet.

The arrangement of the coacting fastening devices is such that the rulings on the original and duplicate sheets are held in proper alinement when in the machine, and is also such that the carbon paper is held againstdropping from between the original and duplicate sheets.

The sheets may be grasped at the top and the carbon paper will not drop out and will not shift about between the original and duplicate sheets. j

rThe carbon paper is preferably longer from sideto side than the distance between the tongues 14 at the corners of the sheets 10, but shorter than the distance between the side tongues, as illustrated in Fig. 3.

The parts herewith silnply illustrate my invention and numerous changes may be. made in the arrangement of the parts of the device, and it is my intention to cover by the patent to be issued upon this application any forms of structure or use of equivalents which may be reasonably included within the scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A manifolding device comprising a sheet, a second sheet of the same size laid thereon with its edges registering therewith, coacting locking means formed from the sheets and disposed within the lines of and between the outer surfaces of said sheets whereby the edges of the irst sheet may move to extend beyond the edges of the second sheet, and a-carbon sheet between the first described sheets and having its edges disposed adjacent to the inner edges of the locking means.

2. In a device of the class described, a sheet having a plurality of pairs of parallel spaced slits of equal length adjacent to and parallel with the edges of the sheet, a carbon sheet superposed upon the irst sheet and adapted to transmit impressions thereto, said carbon sheet being of such size that its edges are disposed between the center of the sheet and the inner slits in the first sheet, and a second sheet of the same size as the first sheet superposed thereon and having its edges alined therewith, said last described sheet having a plurality of tongues formed therefrom and each received in the two slits of one of the pairs of slits in the first sheet and extended beneath the strap formed by said slits.

l Des Moines, Iowa, November 23, 1916.

ULRICH W. WALTON.

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